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10/16/2025 – Be A Maverick – Episode 0506

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show we sit down with Brett Neupert from Maverick Simulations, find out what was fixed in the 2025 Season 4 Patch 3, is there something wrong with the trees, NASCAR 25 is out, with an AI spotter?, it’s Q4 and we have hardware galore being announced and can you feel the wind?

And remember you can follow along with us on your PC or mobile device in real time as you listen to the show and see for yourself all of the great topics and products we’ll discuss by visiting iracerslounge.com and selecting show notes. Hope to see you there..

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Special Guest

Brett Neupert

https://mavericksimulations.com/

Topics

Maverick Simulations

iRacing Arcade Tracks In iRacing?

Feel The Wind

A note from David – “I didn’t even notice the wind as the belt tensioner was the real highlight of this rig.”

More Exciting With AI Commentary?

iRacing Arcade At The Petit LeMans

https://www.iracing.com/iracing-arcade-celebrates-demo-release-with-max-esterson-partnership-at-petit-le-mans

The Cartoon Version Of iRacing?

https://www.iracing.com/iracing-arcade-free-demo-available-now

AI Generated Spotter In NASCAR 25

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/84039/disappointing-to-see-nascar-25-uses-generative-ai

NASCAR 25 Now Available

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/87225/nascar-25-is-available-now/p1

Follow Up From The Last Show

https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2025/09/28/toyota-and-mazda-team-up-to-develop-new-mx-5-and-gr86

I’ll Leave This Here…

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/87074/change-my-mind-trees

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86300/long-standing-issue-with-3d-trees-please-fix

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/87068/trees-popping-in-and-out-since-new-season

A Lap Around Road Atlanta

2025 Season 4 Patch 3 Release Notes

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/87303/2025-season-4-patch-3-release-notes-2025-10-16-01

How Far Will iRacing Throw It Back?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/87123/wnis-2025-gen4-or-nascar-1987

Apex Racing GT3 Trophy League

MX-5 500

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/87316/2025-iracing-mx-500

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-october-14-to-october-20-2025

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Delta By Bavarian Sim Tech

Cammus, Now Even Better

Govee Light Bar Diffuser By Simfire

https://www.simfire.co.uk/collections/ambient-lighting

Sim Race Mods

https://simracemods.com

Why You Need The Hypercool

MOZA R25 Ridiculously Impressive

ES-Pro By Precision Sim Engineering

Worth The Cost?

Sim Core And Simucube 3

The Cheapest Hydraulics?

PXN Release #SOON

P1 Beau Rivage

The Most Authentic F1 Wheel Ever

More Simucube 3 Info

Asetek’s Entry Level Wheel Base

Ready For A Kidney Auction?

GSI Powerlink – QR

Sabelt Seat Foam

So, You Want To Add Motion?

Belt Tensioner Changes Everything

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Sunday Fixed- NiS – Las Vegas

• Mike- P wrecked out right before halfway two cars ahead of me hooked each other into the wall and I couldn’t miss it. Wrecked about 10 cars.  Rode around for a while, then parked it.
• Justin – P rage quit after extensive penalties, resulting from the big wreck. 

Wednesday Open -NiS – Talladega

• David – P 10 (a open)  caught in 3 big ones but even with 6 min of damage at any time was able to stay with pack, finished top 10 with 3 seconds of damage left to repair from a total of about 10 min.

Thursday Open- NiS – Talladega

• Mike- P wrecked out too much damage. We’re done on the first green white checker. I was in the top four what it happened in position to win, but couldn’t do it.  Had a real bad frame per second problem was as low as 19 frames per second.
• Justin – P1- winner winner chicken dinner
• Tony – P12

Official Series

Gen 4

• Ellis – P9 add Phoenix top split qualifying 13th out of 25. Was involved in several cautions, but no real damage was up to 14 incident points but brought her home to finish P9 for a nice top 10 and top split will take it super fun track and car combination. This is gotta be one of the funnest on the Service Barnone
  • Start at ninth finish sixth nice clean race I’ll take it

A Fixed

• Mike. P dnf. Had a pretty good run going in a caution, free race when I was a second car on the outside pushing and the guy behind me was trying to push me and when I backed off a little bit because my oil was red, he pushed me and dumped me to the wall later I got involved in a different wreck and too much damage we’re done

B Open

• John –  P23. This one sucked. I was top 5 the whole race. 3 laps to go and got wrecked out due to a dick move by the eventual winner. We were three wide but plenty of room I was on the inside. The car on the outside took a hard left into the right side of the car in the middle.  It knocked him into my right side and sent me through the grass and into the wall. I was done. 

Ring Meister

• Mike – P two more races on Saturday in the IL 15 in the next two more DNF I seem to be getting worse as the week progresses. I did get a P6 earlier
  • Start a 10th had a good race at the last lab near the end. I would run at 10 two guys in front of me rack. I get by one of them. I get to go buy the other one and he blocked me and wrecked me. Literally beat from the checker. I’m destroyed and can’t finish the race finish p18
  • Monday night we switched to a new car the ligier JS p320. Start a 22 out of 24 quickly got to 15th, but then a guy spun into the wall and then end up being which wrecked me and I wrecked out.

IMSA

• Hall – P 2   had a few good runs with best being p2.
• Brad W – P8 Algarve – Just don’t like this track. I qualified p10 and would have a lazy spin in the first lap. Since this is another VERY unpopular track participation was very poor. I think we had an 800iR in the GT3 field. I was quicker than the ones that got by me after the spin and would have to fight for every position on the way back up. I will never understand why when you run someone down from over 5 seconds back in 3 laps they then choose to fight you for two corners. Once clearing them I would gap them by several seconds within a few laps. This track leads to way too many late dives and people chopping your nose. Was not my best finish but will have to do another one for a better chance at points.
• William –  P6 Imola – Sunday. Top split of 2. Will Weaver in the split with me. Nothing real notable here. Felt about half a second slower than league race earlier in the week even though conditions were similar. Dunno why or how. Maybe could have had 5th without overdriving a few corners in the first sector, and was getting killed off the last turn by a smurf in the same car, but top 3 were 4-6k IR and I had absolutely nothing for them..

League / Hosted Races

Grass Roots Racing 

GTP/GT3 League – Recruitment race

• Brad W – P wrecked on lap one
• David – P7,  25 gtp’s showed up.  Managed to evade an unsafe rejoin and had a spat with an entitled gt3 because he is supposed to tell me where i should and shouldn’t pass when I made a safe move just because it made him take a bad line.

Hosted- 

• Ellis – Chris McGuire hosted INDYCAR at Iowa. Qualified 16 out of 36. wrecked out near the end.
• Riley Daytona prototypes at Charlotte oval. Wrecked out.  
• Then street stocks at Lanier asphalt finish P4

Final Thoughts

Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .” 

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1. Be A Maverick

Description

On today’s show we sit down with Brett Neupert from Maverick Simulations, find out what was fixed in the 2025 Season 4 Patch 3, is there something wrong with the trees, NASCAR 25 is out, with an AI spotter?, it’s Q4 and we have hardware galore being announced and can you feel the wind?

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

Sponsors: 

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Mike Ellis – https://x.com/mikedeanellis

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Brad Wrenn – https://x.com/bradwrenn

John Kerley – https://x.com/KerleyJohnE

Justin Pearson – https://www.facebook.com/justin.pearson.5811

Bobby Jonas – https://x.com/bjonas71

William Westbrook – https://www.facebook.com/william.westbrook.35

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10/9/2025 – The Best Gets Better? – Episode 0505

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show find out what Simucube just revealed, who took home the Coke Series title, there is a mod for iRacing, does warming your tires actually work, check out some new shifters, is a belt tensioner worth it and if you started all over again, what would you do different when building your rig?

And remember you can follow along with us on your PC or mobile device in real time as you listen to the show and see for yourself all of the great topics and products we’ll discuss by visiting iracerslounge.com and selecting show notes. Hope to see you there..

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Topics

How Real Is iRacing?

Mind Bender

A Nightmare?

Do We Need Safety Cars In Special Events?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86952/iracing-please-were-in-2025

Still Going

Petit Top Split Winners

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/733993#Comment_733993

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86847/thanks-iracing-another-rain-ruined-event

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/734562#Comment_734562

A Game Changer

What If There were No Smurfs?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86763/what-if-there-were-no-smurfs

https://challenge.duncanwatts.com/Smurfs

How Many Cars In The Race?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86805/the-position-display-is-completely-nonsensical

Sim Racing Will Never Be Realistic

1. financial limitiations
2. hardware limitations
3. compute power
4. objective of software
5. we cant have it all

1. Visual, audiotory, tactical feedback is what we are getting

No Assists, No Compromise

Another Sim Crashing Bug

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/733959#Comment_733959

Ready To Quit?

Whether you’re just starting out in sim racing or grinding to shave off those final tenths, this video will help you understand exactly where you are in your sim racing journey — and what you need to do to level up.

From spinning out in Survival Mode, to chasing perfection like the top 0.5% alien drivers, we’ll break down the 5 key stages of skill development that every fast sim racer goes through

1. Stop chasing perfection. You will never have the perfect lap or setup
2. Chase progress goals. I will brake through this corner better, the lap times will come naturally.
3. Find the joy in the challenge itself. You are trying to master a craft, work the long game.

INDYCAR Game To Use A Unique Graphics Engine

Which Method Is The Best?

The 2025 eNASCAR Coca-Cola Finally

https://www.iracing.com/steven-wilson-dominates-at-homestead-miami-extends-wins-record-claims-second-career-enascar-coca-cola-iracing-series-title

If Toyota And Mazda Had A Baby

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86909/the-mx-5-and-gr86-set-to-become-the-same-car-very-soon

Training For Real Races

https://traxion.gg/how-james-baldwin-uses-simucube-equipment-to-train-for-motorsport-success/

Proper Setup

IMSA E-Sports Global Championship Sign Ups Are Open

SRF Weekend Warriors League

Listener Jeff Wubker sends in:

 If any of you guys are interested check out Weekend Warriors racing league. I know and understand the frustration with iPacing lately. I’m frustrated with official racing as well. 

Anyway, this is one of the cars they run and there are very few senseless wrecks. 

Also the owner Stevie Ray just had his 10 year anniversary of the league. 

The races are on Slow Motion Broadcast 

Thanks,
Jeff

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-october-7-to-october-13-2025

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Ambient Light Diffuser

https://www.simfire.co.uk/products/govee-light-bar-shade-diffuser

VERO Motion; Who Are They?

Sim Labs Reveal #SOON

DIY All 3D Printed

https://makerworld.com/en/crowdfunding/64-sim-race-pro

If You Started Over Again?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86546/if-you-had-to-sell-your-rig-and-start-again-which-would-you-pick

Boosted Media Live Discount Tracker

https://boostedmedia.net/discounts-coupons-codes/

Dave Cam On Simucube Active Pedals

I am able to hit the brake pressure I want all the time… These completely blow all other pedals out of the water with regards to feel consistency smoothness and performance

Simucube Release October 9, 2025

Simruito 7 + R Gear Shifter

Simsonn USB 6+R Shifter

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Wednesday Open -NiS – Las Vegas 

• Tony – Pself spun to many times. Was fast but new harder bumps in 1 & 2 more defined. Kept self spinning on the high side. Saved it a few times but didnt save the last time into the wall ended my night
• David – P wrecked by a some not joining safely, protest went through, but dont know his penalty (a open)

Official Series

Gen 4

• Ellis – P4 – Atlanta top split. Start at 17th worked my way up to the top five drove my ass off sweating like a pig made no mistakes and brought it home P4.! super proud of that. This car is so hard to drive and be good at.
  • Top split again started 13 and finished P10 green flag run the whole way no cautions ran my ass off and got what I deserved which was the top 10
  • Wednesday night started a race right after dinner without starting up all my apps apparently and I had no force feedback so I had to DNF and stop the race after wrecking
  • Deck started P6 and spun by myself at the end, took off the nose, but was able to finish P7

B Open

• Donnie – Charlotte Roval and Las Vegas

Late Model Stock

• Donnie – Martinsville and Lanier

Ring Meister

• Mike – P started P5 and the Skip barber and finish P5 great race
  • Next race started at fourth but wrecked out in a foolish move and hit the wall and killed the car DNF
  • Qualified type top split some guy wants to go side-by-side in the turn one lap one and decide to go over the curbs and wreck the field and I get collected. I can’t even get the turn to.
  • Monday night we switched to the new car the Dallara IL 15 indy  next. Started at the back worked my way up to about 18th and a car in front of me pounded the wall hard. It came back across the track. I had nowhere to go in T-bone dim DNF.
  • Start a 21st out of 29. And I bring it home P 16 after spending once but not wrecking finally a finish.
  • Start a 12th out of 22. Got up to seventh by lap one but then spun by myself no damage and was able to finish P6.
  • Wrecked out in lap, one DNF on the next start
  • Start at 16th ended up spinning at one point and finishing P 12
  • Then made my third attempt to qualifying and finally got a lap in a very respectable sub six minutes with a 559 four.

Petite LeMans

• Hall p3 ran with Altitude eSports with a listener.   We got wrecked out of first start time.  Started 2nd and also got wrecked by a gt3 just turning right out of turn7.   But made it up to p3. This track is good for me as I was out running 2.5k drivers

IMSA

• Hall – P 
• Ellis – P
• Kyle – P 
• Brad W – P9 (Road Atlanta) started P31 after a horrible qualifying attempt. Settled in and put my head down and was able to keep my nose clean and avoid a lot of the carnage early on. Another big gap between SOF by class.
  • P6 (Imola) started P11 and was middle of the pack on speed. This track is really easy to pick up off tracks. Was set to finish p7 but was gifted a position due to a penalty from p6. First time I have ever raced here but ready to run a couple more this week.
• William –  P7- Love this track but can’t seem to catch a break. Got squeezed off twice by people not leaving room exiting a corner when they’re on the inside. LMP2 traffic was also terrible. Not an awful result but should have been better.
  • P23- Iracing, i’m begging you, please stop putting 1000-1500 rated prototypes in races with a 3k SOF GT3 field. They do not understand how to make a pass. Either its a dive bomb that hits you, or they can’t complete a pass by the time you exit the corner. Listen LMP2s. I promise if you’re not getting alongside coming out turn 6, its faster for BOTH of us if you just wait until coming out of 7. If you’re late, we’re both losing time in the most important corner exit on the course. Had a P2 dive me really late going into 10, basically had to stop to make the corner, really slow on the exit because of this and a GT3 that was already a lap down just doesn’t lift coming out of the corner. Broken suspension on the rear, 12 minutes of damage, first race I haven’t finished in almost a year. 
  • P6- Again can’t catch a break here. Was P3 about 30 min in, cruising to the podium and on pace to catch 2nd before the end of the race when my screen freezes for 10 seconds in turn 10. Luckily it was the slowest part of the track and was able to get it off without hitting anything, but fell to 9th. Also surprised I didn’t get protested for this race because I  was done with getting pushed off the track and a guy cleared himself off my nose early in the race and died. Maybe iRacing told him to pound sand. Able to get back to 6th, but killed what should have been best finish in a while. 

League / Hosted Races

Elbows Out Racing League (LMP2 and GT3 Wednesday Nights)

• William- P7 – Imola –  Was extremely slow in quali, should probably have practiced more. Started 16th and because I was so far back got caught up in some lap one shenanigans. Car spun, or got spun, from about 5th and didn’t hold his breaks until he was back on the track. Caught me and the car in front of me with no where to go, not much damage but lots a ton of time, think I fell to 26th or so. Found some pace throughout the race and was able to get a respectable finish. Lapped traffic and lower half of the prototype field definitely seem to be an issue in this league. Lost a bunch of time to them or might have been able to press more. Love Imola, wish I had done better in quali. 

Hosted- 

• Ellis – Chris McGuire hosted old Indy car at new Atlanta started 43rd out of 45 and finished P8. Great run.
  • 87 at Daytona started 14th out of 34 and finish P2. I was right there at the end but didn’t have enough to get there. Great run P2.
  • Old supercars at Atlanta finish P2 all almost got the win. So close.

Final Thoughts

Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .” 

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1. The best gets better?

Description

On today’s show find out what Simucube just revealed, who took home the Coke Series title, there is a mod for iRacing, does warming your tires actually work, check out some new shifters, is a belt tensioner worth it and if you started all over again, what would you do different when building your rig?

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

Sponsors: 

Hosts:

Mike Ellis – https://x.com/mikedeanellis

David Hall – https://x.com/dmixmage

Greg Hecktus – twitter.com/froozenkaktus

Donnie Spiker – https://www.instagram.com/spikerman19/

Brad Wrenn – https://x.com/bradwrenn

John Kerley – https://x.com/KerleyJohnE

Justin Pearson – https://www.facebook.com/justin.pearson.5811

Bobby Jonas – https://x.com/bjonas71

William Westbrook – https://www.facebook.com/william.westbrook.35

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10/2/2025 – Calling All Stewards – Episode 0504

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show we sit down with Mike Oulette from The Majors to discuss a new project, iRacing’s Tony Gardener chats with Sarah Nocchi, will sim racing be a requirement for real racing in the future, discuss two new headsets, do you need a sim rig roof and it looks like F1’s Alex Albon has a new rig.

And remember you can follow along with us on your PC or mobile device in real time as you listen to the show and see for yourself all of the great topics and products we’ll discuss by visiting iracerslounge.com and selecting show notes. Hope to see you there..

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Special Guest

Guest Name

General Questions:

1. What brought you to iRacing and how did you hear about it?
2. Which series do you normally run?                
3. What type of hardware do you use? (Wheels, Pedals, ect.)
4. Software
   1. What gear did you use when you first started iRacing?
5. Do you run Monitors or VR?
   1. How many monitors?
   2. What VR headset are you running?
6. Are you part of a team?  
7. Do you participate in any leagues or is it just official racing? 
8. What is your most memorable iRacing moment? 

Topics

Sim Racing Stewards

https://simracingstewards.com/

NASCAR 25 #SOON

https://x.com/WGI/status/1973086747408863437

https://x.com/TALLADEGA/status/1973043835023261937

https://x.com/IMS/status/1972707947055817145

https://x.com/DAYTONA/status/1972662984385171742

Will You Be Tweeted About?

iRacing’s Tony Gardener Interview

Tony Gardener President and CEO interview – 350000 subscribers…. 250 employees.

Albon’s New Rig

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1343666890455057&id=100044352762897&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=BuUn6Uf8YhgqAUsY#

Field Sizes?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86629/are-the-field-sizes-too-small-the-ulimate-poll

Get Through That!

Upcoming iTested Event

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86670/itested-event-this-weekend-17-car-types

Can You Spare A Dime?

Last Lap Drive!

Endurance Schedule Generator

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86700/endurance-scheduler-generator-solver

Did The Update Make Gen 4 Worse?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86456/whatever-the-devs-did-to-the-gen-4-car-it-ruined-it

Please iRacing

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86725/iracing-please-save-pirc-at-least-virtually

Something Needs To Be Done With The TTRating

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86643/something-needs-to-be-done-with-time-trials-and-transparency-on-the-ttrating

Sim Racing A Requirement Going Forward?

https://www.facebook.com/motorsportcom/posts/pfbid02f7cdkJ5fagX3AUff9nAYPrvB4bibhCf4zg5tExeM2mxCGSixcAR2DbChJQ862xs9l

What Role Do You Play In Each Incident?

Simucube Time Attack

iRacing INDYCAR Pro Series Returns

https://www.iracing.com/indycar-thrustmaster-iracing-pro-series-set-to-return-in-january-2026

eNASCAR Championship Race Next Week

https://www.iracing.com/2025-enascar-coca-cola-iracing-series-team-championship-rookie-of-the-year-relegation-outlook-entering-season-finale

Petit LeMans

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86359/2025-petit-le-mans-powered-by-vco

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-september-30-to-october-6-2025

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Is The G321 Right For You?

Moradness Auro Pros

Is This The Future of VR?

MOZA mBooster Setup Guide

BDH Warrior Edition

PXN V10 Full Review

Sim Roof Build

Void Max Wireless V2

RTX 5000 Price Drops

VR Without Compromise

Replica VS Real

Simucube 3

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/85560/simucube-3/p1

Conspit Black Friday Sale

Bavarian SimTec Omega Pro V2

Murico Unboxing

MOZA R25, The New King?

$199 Pedals?

Could This Spotter See Over The Railing?

ES-Pro By Precision Sim Engineering

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – NiS – Kansas

• David – P16 (A Open) got loose early, no cautions to get it back

Sunday Open- NiS – Kansas

• Tony – P2 had a decent run. About ½ way ended up self spinning while in middle 3 wide after a few laps on a restart saved it. Used all 3 gwc. First 2 the outside line kept spinning their tires and wrecking and each time i gained tons of spots. Restarted 3rd on final gwc and just couldnt catch the leader. Finally a good run 
• John – P30. First NIS race in over two months. I had quit due to pathetic racecraft and cautions. Should have stayed away. On a lap 16 restart a guy spun his tires and turned into me throwing me into the wall. Too much damage – I was done.

Sunday Fixed- NiS – Kansas

• Mike- P5- I had a pretty good race, but then I got spun more than once a couple times down under the grass. One minute damage was able to do a nice recovery up to P5 never really had anything for the leaders, but we’ll take a nice top five
• Justin – P wrecked out

Thursday Open- NiS – ROVAL

• Mike- P12-start at 18th work my way up to 14th and then spun off on my own on the tight hairband corner fell back to 24th worked my way back up to 16th spot again a couple other times without really wrecking lost track position, but gained it back and finished P12 two laps down.

Official Series

Gen 4

• Ellis – P at Atlanta surprisingly split of 24 each on Monday night. 

B Open

• John –  P17. This was an enjoyable race. NO CAUTIONS!!! I was fast but made a mistake on Lap 25; I smacked the wall coming out of turn two and damaged my right front. Had to wait until my green flag pit stop to repair it. That put me a lap down. Finish was not great, but it was nice not to get wrecked out by some fools like we have in NIS.

Ring Meister

• Mike – P started fifth in the Ferrari GT three and ended up wrecking not long after DNF
  • Started P3 and finish P3 pretty clean race had nothing for the leaders. We’ll take it podium.
  • Start a third by turn to the guy wants to dive in and run side-by-side which is fine. I ran side-by-side with him for a couple corners. Finally got ahead and then he dumped me DNF.
  • So it’s Sunday night I want to practice the car for next week the Skip barber. So I’m in the UI. I find the schedule I see the car for next week and I hit practice with AI so I run the race and there’s 28 GT three cars and there’s three Skip Barber cars.  I don’t know if this is what it’s supposed to do.
  • So to run the Ferrari one more time Sunday night, I missed the start. I start from Pitt Road and my turn three I’m going by a car that’s in the grass. He’s suddenly jolts onto the track in front of me and IT bone him unsafe, rejoined
  • Qualified first thing in the shit barber formula 2000 ended up starting PE five and finishing P3 had a great battle with fourth for third spot and we played a game of chicken at the end but I win like usual to take the podium and a great first race of the week to finish in P3. 
  • Start a second wrecked out fairly soon, kinda on my own because I actually had a spammer in the chat spamming garbage on my stream and it was distracting so I wreck
  • Start a third I got to lead going over the bathtub. I left slightly. He runs over me from behind ratio wrecked from behind from the lead.
  • Then wrecked out again, mistake on my own, went off track and destroyed the car
  • Then started fourth and finished P7 after going off the track once but able to recover

IMSA

• Hall – P 2 and 1, Road ATL I have a decent pace here.
• Brad W – P9 and P10. Both races at Fuji started on a dry track that required drys to be put on at the stop. I had decent pace but as always with wet races the participation was low all week. Both races were top split and I was happy with both. I only had a spin in one of them after getting punted by a GTP before the chicane. I do enjoy searching for that dry lane once you change tires cause if you miss it….hold on!

League / Hosted Races

Grass Roots Racing 

GTP/GT3 League – Suzuka Endurance Race

• William W –  P3. Final race of the season. Nothing notable really here except for David getting punted. Finished the season 3rd in points. Next season starts in two weeks at LeMans, come join us!
• David – P7 got dumped by a guy on his out lap with cold tires

Elbows Out Racing League (LMP2 and GT3 Wednesday Nights)

• William- P7. Full 62 car grid. The racing at the top of this league is very good, but the lower half of LMP2 and the AM can sometimes leave something to be desired in the racecraft area. A lot of good racing, but also a lot of frustration with GT3 parking it on apex and LMP2 unable to complete passes. Got stuck behind a lambo for a bit that prevented me from moving up, on pace might have had a 5th or so, but needed to do better with traffic. 

Hosted- 

• Ellis – Car of  tomorrow at Talladega went on the far outside for three wide for the wind they got wrecked out. John Kerley finished eight Kyle wrecked out
  • Supercars at Michigan got wrecked out

Final Thoughts

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1. Calling All Stewards

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On today’s show we sit down with Mike Oulette from The Majors to discuss a new project, iRacing’s Tony Gardener chats with Sarah Nocchi, will sim racing be a requirement for real racing in the future, discuss two new headsets, do you need a sim rig roof and it looks like F1’s Alex Albon has a new rig.

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9/25/2025 – Her Name Is Laguna – Episode 0503

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show we cover the Logitech release that we did not get to last week, another chair to keep you cool, see if iRacing has become too greedy, how can I get my track added to the service, cover patch notes, find out what GSI is working towards and should we rename the service to iPacing?

And remember you can follow along with us on your PC or mobile device in real time as you listen to the show and see for yourself all of the great topics and products we’ll discuss by visiting iracerslounge.com and selecting show notes. Hope to see you there..

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Topics

Is This A Greedy Change?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86178/weathertech-raceway-laguna-seca-pricing-update

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86183/laguna-seca-price-update

Winter Is Coming

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86186/bmw-gt3-snow-plow-attachment

iPacing?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86145/why-is-iracing-now-ipacing

Why Is F1 Dead In iRacing?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86105/why-is-f1-formula-a-dead-on-here

2025 Season 4 Patch 2 Release Notes

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86306/2025-season-4-patch-2-release-notes-2025-09-24-01#latest

Can I Get My Track Added To iRacing?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/728557#Comment_728557

iRacing Arcade

You’re Invited!

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86108/your-invited-enascar-finale-nascar-hall-of-fame/p1

Help Do Something Good

Bathurst 1000

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/85843/2025-bathurst-1000-by-next-level-racing

Petit LeMans

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/86359/2025-petit-le-mans-powered-by-vco#latest

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-september-23-to-september-29-2025

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Changes Coming To Moradness

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Coow28Ewz/

Logitech RS50

Custom Chairs By O-Rouge

ASR Gen 2 Wheel Deck Coming Soon

QS-H13 By Qubic Systems Getting Closer

Sim Labs #SOON

New Wheel From Precision Sim Engineering

DIY From Kodia Racing

Conspit 310 Apex

An All In One Command Center

GSI Working Toward Full Ecosystem

Does It Include A Hangover?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/85968/bubba-wallace-freddie-kraft-v0-5-spotter-pack

MOZA mBoosters Inverted

PXN V10 Wheel Base

A Perfect Match

https://novaextrusion.com

Cube Controls Astra Unboxing

Widest FOV

1. its called a dream air SE
2. has eye tracking
3. micro led
4. 105 HFOV, uses a concave pancake lenses
5. it has built in spatial audio
6. 3840 x 3552 pixels per eye Sony micro led
7. glass plastic hybrid lenses to reduce glare and aberrations
8. 110 HFOV on the dream air 120 diagonal

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – NiS – New Hampshire

• David – P13 (A open Replacement)

Wednesday Open -NiS – Kansas

• David – P10 (A open Replacement)

Thursday Open- NiS – Kansas

• Mike- P 11 I had a couple instances where I spun out on my own held a break and got cream from behind. Got all that damage fixed once the damage was repaired. Was able to recover up to finish P 11 will take it.
• Chris – P25 top split

Official Series

A Open

• David – P10 (A open top split)  Good long run speed, car 22 in a tough field
• Brad W – P23 Taken 3 wide and wrecked on lap 16. Does not matter what Next Gen series, the racing is no longer fun.

Ring Meister

• Mike – P Toyota GR 86 had the pole position. Second place was putting pressure on me coming down the hill lap. One I over drove one corner just stuffed it in the wall hard DNF.
  • Started on pole position got ran over from the lead from behind where the guy just missed the breaking point ended up falling back to P6, but recovering to finish P2
  • Started p5 finish P3. Ended up with seven incident points, though after I got into one guy accidentally still a great podium finish.
  • Monday night GT three I picked the Ferrari wrecked out early on the first race due to low brain rate how to adjust graphics
  • Starting in 27th out of 29. Got up to 15th by the end of lap one, but in a game of chicken at the end of the straightaway, I lost and the guy didn’t give me room.
  • Start a 22 got to third by the end of lap one. As soon as I realized I was third I spun out on my own and fell to 11th then worked my way back up to finish P6 finally finish, but I’m bleeding SR.
  • Started on Pitt Road dead last P 28 got up to 14th by the time we got to the big hill me and another guy were side-by-side going up the hill we’re catching another car and when we get to the kink, he suddenly goes from six to 4th gear with brakes on an uphill turn where you’re only supposed to tap the brake for a moment he slows some 2030 mile an hour, and I rear-ended him real hard and kill the car dnf. 
  • Start a 25th of 27 got up to about 15 quite soon, but then a Mustang went off and came back on and took out a group of five of us DNF
  • Finally qualified third out of in 26. Hit the wall pretty hard going up the hill trying to make a pass at the kink was really stupid and hit the wall, but was able to continue on and bring it home and finish P4.
  • Started on Paul position. Led the entire race and won it winner winner chicken dinner. I had to fight for the guy in second gave me a run, but eventually he wrecked off and I was able to win the race.
  • Pole  position, foughthard for the lead. But eventually lost it due to sloppy driving. I actually tried to turn the driving line off this race and struggled hard.  P2. Upset if I left the driving line on, I feel like I would’ve won the race.
  • Qualified third was running third when I hit the curbs and hit the wall, knocking the hole back and off the car DNF
  • Started on the pole position, led the first half of the race had about a six second lead and made a mistake and stuffed it in the wall and knocked the rear end off DNF. It’s checkers or wreckersfor me.

IMSA

• Brad W – P5 (Sebring GT3) Started p2 but still struggling to get up to speed on cold tires. Had very good pace but trying to pass another Mustang is hard because both cars are so planted coming off the corner. Was in p4 till I blew the hair pin being way too aggressive trying to make a pass. Managed to gain a few spots on the last lap as traffic took out some guys ahead of me.
• William W- P9, P14,P6. Sebring. Messed up qualifying on the first two runs by getting an off track on my second lap. It’s very hard to move through the field here with similar skill level racers. The last race was top split near 4k sof. Pretty proud of a P6 here. Didn’t mess up qualifying but in this field a good lap only got me around 9th. Made it to 6th on first lap and then pretty much held on for dear life. Was gaining on 5th but started to overdrive the car and made the tires angry. But I’ll take P6 top split.

INDYCAR OVAL – Fixed

• John – P9. Nice to have a 70 lap race with only one caution. I was running P8 and spun it into the grass out of turn 4 on lap 18. Touched the inside wall and got some damage that could not be repaired. Didn’t hurt the car much. Stayed out as long as I could but had to pit on lap 39 for fuel. Sure enough, as soon as i pulled in the pits the one and only caution came out and that put me a lap down. Rest of the race was calm and I brought it home in the top 10

Draftmaster

• John K. P10. What can I say? I finished a draftmaster with only 4X, so that’s a good run.

League / Hosted Races

Majors 24hrish of Atlanta

• David = P4,  The last yellow cost us a podium

Grass Roots Racing 

GTP/GT3 League – Watkins Glen Sprint Race

• William W –  P2. Very challenging conditions at Watkins. We use forecasted weather and don’t change it unless it’s like the 3rd race in a row. Forecast was for a 62% chance of rain, but driving the actual session the intensity fluctuated between 65-100%. Surprised myself with how well I did as I normally dread the rain. No major mishaps. Was running P4 on the last lap when P2 spun in the last turn and collected P3. Overall very good result. 
• Brad W – P6 in the Monsoon of The Glen. Very bad conditions the entire race. I managed to only have one spin but the rain intensity was around 74% the entire race with the track being at 87% which would be a red flag condition in the real world. Yes, iRacing you still have issues with the weather model!
• David – Wrecked.  Felt good about running the early part of the race mistake free, but in the process of trying to figure out which lane a gt3 was taking, I missed the braking mark, because of the spray.

Elbows Out Racing League (LMP2 and GT3 Wednesday Nights)

• William- P10. They were testing the software that automatically throws the yellow with a certain amount of incidents with a certain amount of time but it was tuned way too sensitive. Spent the first 30 min under the safety car. Admins handle it the best they could but tough conditions to run in. Messed up pit strategy by not going in under yellow. Had pace for maybe a top 3 but cycled to 10th after green flag stop. 

Hosted- 

• Ellis – Chris McGuire hosted Cara tomorrow at Talladega finish P5 and then supercars at Michigan finish P5
  • Old Indy car at Pocono wrecked out

Final Thoughts

Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .” 

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1. Her name is Laguna

Description

On today’s show we cover the Logitech release that we did not get to last week, another chair to keep you cool, see if iRacing has become too greedy, how can I get my track added to the service, cover patch notes, find out what GSI is working towards and should we rename the service to iPacing?

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

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David Hall – https://x.com/dmixmage

Greg Hecktus – twitter.com/froozenkaktus

Donnie Spiker – https://www.instagram.com/spikerman19/

Brad Wrenn – https://x.com/bradwrenn

John Kerley – https://x.com/KerleyJohnE

Justin Pearson – https://www.facebook.com/justin.pearson.5811

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9/6/2025 – Get Off My Lounge – Episode 0500

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show we are live for our 500th episode from the Sim Gaming Expo in Chicago. Join us as we look at the history of the show, updates from the show and much more.

And remember you can follow along with us on your PC or mobile device in real time as you listen to the show and see for yourself all of the great topics and products we’ll discuss by visiting iracerslounge.com and selecting show notes. Hope to see you there..

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Topics

Episode 0500 – How Did We Get Here?

Using 4 Digits As the Episode Number story….

How old will we be when we get to 1000?

It takes a village – Mike Ellis, Alan Pajari, Jose Pabon, Carlos Fonseca, Brad Miller, Chris Scales, Tony Groves, Tony Rochette, Will Gibson, Jonas Hankins, Jeff Walton, Kyle Fleischman, Colton Landes, Phil Linden, Greg Hecktus, Bobby Jonas, Steve Thomson, David Hall, Stephen LouAllen, Joe Owens, Mason Stiver, Josh Sleeter, Bill Hull, Jesse Gray, Shane Chastain, Adam Thompson, Adam Josselyn, Brad Wren, Justin Pearson, John Kerley, William Westbrook. Thank you to everyone who has participated in this project.

F1 Podium SOF

How Many Hours Of Pacing?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/84339/is-phoenix-finale-nis-full-length

Indy NXT Next Week

Aston Martin Vantage EVO GT3

When Will iRacing Deliver?

Why No 24 Hours Of Le Mans?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/84365/where-are-our-24-hours-of-le-mans

Going…Going…Gone

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/79543/2025-season-3-4-track-retirement-planning/p1

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/718966/#Comment_718966

Novak Locks In!

https://www.iracing.com/zack-novak-returns-to-enascar-coca-cola-iracing-series-victory-lane-at-texas-advances-to-championship-4

I’m Dropping The Hammer!

Surpise!

Ontario: The Silliest Street Course?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/84438/the-worlds-silliest-street-course-is-coming-to-iracing

Mustang Darkhorse GT4 Has Arrived

Always The Bridesmaid

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/84471/winless-stats

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-september-2-to-september-8-2025

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Thermaltake

Eyes On The Track, Not On The CPU

Gomez Interlock

Simagic Evo QR-A Quick Release

Simucube Announces At The SGE

https://simucube.com/simucube-co-pedal/

Next Level Sound

Stay In Your Lane

Astra By Cube Controls

Bring On The Motion

Podium 1 Cart Rig

Sim Labs New Quick Connect

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – NiS – Darlington

• David – P wrecked, a guys block went bad for both of us
• Brad- P24 Wrecked again. Same story, different week. The absurdity on NiS right now is on a crazy level.

Sunday Open- NiS – Darlington

• David – P Wrecked out on lap 4
• Tony – P5
• Joe – p I got wrecked with to much damage on lap 26

Sunday Fixed- NiS – Darlington

• Mike- P9- there were seven cautions in the first 50 laps. I was involved in six of them and I had 16 x 50 laps by halfway I was at 24X and had to run the last half of the race with no incidence, but somehow pulled it off and ended up with a P9 attrition was major only 19 cars finished at a 37

Wednesday Open -NiS – Gateway

• Mike- P fixed – ended up finishing 21st. I had 24 incident points.  I got 12 before last 19 in Rex that were not by doing.  Total shit show 12 different cautions.  I had admitted to look for damage and that was a mistake and that put me in the back and I lost my track position. Never really could regain it.  
• Mike- open- p12- pretty much kept it clean, but got messed up in a couple incidents in the end and lost some track position. Was able to get it back most of it and finish P 12 happy with that.
• Justin – P wrecked out on the first green white checker running third spin the tires on a restart. 
• Chris – P wrecked out too much damage we’re done
• David – P went the last 20 or 30 laps trying to serve a black flag, but couldn’t.   Served it at the end.  This race was once again a shit show.  First this one guy caused literally the first 5 cautions and took out almost every team mate in the split.  Making unsafe moves and unable to hold a line.  Later in the race a guy tries to take it 3 wide and fails to stay in the 3rd inside lane, taking me out.  Apologizes, ok….but then 2 restarts later does the same kind of shit.  I’m fucking sick of this and if iRacing isn’t going to do something about people like this then they really don’t give a shit about the quality of official racing.  As long as no one goes about policing themselves, or using bad language, iRacing is happy.
• Brad- P22 Not even sure where to begin with this one. Wrecked twice by the same driver that caused four yellows. Overall 19 cautions and a 120 lap race that took over two hours to finish. Ended up 3 laps down driving a half fixed car trying to avoid getting an incident drive through.

Official Series

Formula Vee 

• Mike– P7 started a dead last 12 out of 12 did the race to get SR ended with zero incidents and finished P7 due to attrition.
  • P7 started dead last 12 out of 12 zero incidents finish P7 just like the previous race
  • Start a dead last 12th no incidents finished P2. The leaders piled up coming into the checker and I took advantage from six place up to second.
  • Start a 10th out of 12 actually raced with everybody and got up to P5 still no incidents
  • Start a 10th out of 12 and somehow finish P3 still no incident

Mazda cup

• Ellis– P qualified 12 finish eighth finish with zero incident
  • Start at 12 finish ninth again no incident points
  • Started dead last 12 finished 12 went wide ones had a one incident into the race at 1.97SR almost there
  • Started dead last 12th made it up to fifth but still got a one X avoiding a wreck in front of me. Ended up gaining .5 SR and made it to 2.47 finally. Mission accomplished.

Gen 4

• Ellis – P top split Kansas car 23 out of 25. Two cautions I missed it car was clean. I finished P 11 pretty fun track to run the top.  The set is just way too tight though to be any fun.  We gotta have a looser set in this car.

Ring Meister

• Mike – qualified second was chasing the leader. He hit the brakes extremely in my opinion I went to avoid him and had to hit the wall DNF.
  • Next race started second fought the leader real hard and finally got by under heavy pressure and went on to win it winner winner chicken dinner career win number 116 super proud to win in the GT three at Ferrari at the ring nords life Green-hell. 
  •  started P2 finish P2 leader was fast. He drove away from me easily. He was five seconds a lap faster than me.  I’ve run inconsistent 637 and he’s running 632 with the best of 630.
  • Started third finished third got as high as second actually spun at my myself at one point was still able to finish third.

IMSA

• Brad W – P8 (Indy-GT3) Had a rather uneventful race until after pitstops. I had decent pace but not as quick as the top 4. I was running p5 after the stop and running down p4 going into T1. Had a lap car that really should have backed out before the corner but did not. He went in too deep and had to check up. I went to his right only to have p6 take us three wide which crowded me into the lapper and I spun. P6’s excuse was I did not know we were three wide. How he did not see what was going on ahead of him is beyond me. After the spin I was p9 but was able to get one spot over the final laps. Really disappointing result.

League / Hosted Races

Grass Roots Racing 

GTP/GT3 League – Indy Sprint Race

• Brad W – P5 I did not have the pace of the top 4 so I tried to play the undercut on pitstops but blew the pitroad entry and lost too much time. I’m really enjoying this league and still feel that it has really helped my pace in officials.

Hosted- 

• Ellis – ran an AI race Nashville super Speedway in the Del Laura IR 18 Indy car. Put the adaptive AI on the highest setting started mid got to the lead by lap six.  I’m calling BS on the AI. It’s not strong enough at least thus car at this track.
  • Pick up car finished P7 race an old friend from the past Roderick Norman, and saw a professional Coke driver Dylan alt finish P9
  • Official SK modified fixed at Southern national. 

Final Thoughts

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TITLE

1. Get Off My Lounge

Description

On today’s show we are live for our 500th episode from the Sim Gaming Expo in Chicago. Join us as we look at the history of the show, updates from the show and much more.

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

Sponsors: 

Hosts:

Mike Ellis – https://x.com/mikedeanellis

David Hall – https://x.com/dmixmage

Greg Hecktus – twitter.com/froozenkaktus

Donnie Spiker – https://www.instagram.com/spikerman19/

Brad Wrenn – https://x.com/bradwrenn

John Kerley – https://x.com/KerleyJohnE

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8/28/2025 – Cooling Your Sack – Episode 0499

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Show Introduction

On today’s show, an unexpected announcement from iRacing Studios, see how sim racing changed NASCAR, can NiS be fixed, new hardware teaser from Cube Controls and ASR brings back a favorite, is iRacing telemetry about to go crazy and WE ARE SEVEN DAYS AWAY FROM THE SIM GAMING EXPO!

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Topics

INDYCAR Console Game Coming In 2026

Can Your Brain Tell The Difference?

Data Analysis From Cosworth

Commitment

How Sim Racing Changed NASCAR

Season 4: Where And When

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/84103/whats-going-where-and-when-season-4-2025-road-series-updates

Some Reading Material For You

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/84105/new-book-release-for-sim-racers-pixels-to-podiums

How Do We Fix NiS?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/83973/actions-should-be-taken-to-improve-racing-standard-of-nis-series

https://kevinbouhalassa.substack.com/p/the-bad-racing-standard-of-the-nis?r=2ij6rx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Do We Need Podiums And Victory Lanes?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/83956/podium-celebration

NW Sim Racing

The New UI Is Here

iRacing’s Most Dead Series

Do You Have A Dream Spotter Pack?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/83996/dream-spotter-pack-hickory-dickory-dock

Sim Gaming Expo

Use code IRLP10 to save 10% off tickets

https://www.instagram.com/p/DN4P27SASSe

2025 IMSA Global Esports Schedule Announced

https://www.imsa.com/news/2025/08/21/2025-imsa-esports-global-championship-on-iracing-schedule-revealed

INDY 6 Hour

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/84061/2025-indy-6-hour

Majors Series 2 Hour Solo Petit Le Mans

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/84085/majors-petit-lemans

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-august-26-to-september-1-2025

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Hardware/Software

Lamborghini By MOZA

ASR 6 Chassis [Legacy Edition]

https://www.advancedsimracing.com/products/asr-6-chassis-legacy-edition

Cube Controls Teaser

Sabelt SRS-1 Racing Yellow

Morad Gets The mBooster

First Ever Bike Sim!

Try It In One Week At The SGE!

No Real Competition At This Price Point

Why Are They?